Isiah Thomas -25 Points in a Quater, 1988 NBA Finals Game 6

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2 жыл бұрын

Isaiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons in the 1988 NBA Finals took his game to amazing heights.
Game 6 vs Magic Johnson & the L.A Lakers, Isaiah (Zeek) showed Incredible Leadership & Heart after a Career threatening injury... Comes back and drops 25pts in the 3rd quater.
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@jeffvaliton4530 2 жыл бұрын

Loved watching him play. The best point guard I ever saw. Even better than magic.

@rafikz77 2 жыл бұрын

I love Magic but I also prefer Zeke So smooth, also a magician , clutch shooter, tough, amazing handles.

@dbzfan4evermj233 Жыл бұрын

🧢

@TommyGibbs1 Жыл бұрын

@@rafikz77 Definitely 💯💯

@123slasher.16 Жыл бұрын

👍

@shawnyoung8752 Жыл бұрын

@@rafikz77 saw In 78 Aguirre. Cummings Thomas. Doc. At provisio west thanksgiving tourney. Aguirre was 6 7 chubby with soft hands and had use of both hands. Also could score of glass just cause he could. Cumming raws but still 6 8 230 as jr. Thomas was just downright scary. Year older than me 5 10. 150. When coach let him go at end of Semi game it was a kid schooling the big kids. Only guy like him to play pro IVERSON. Both had only 1 fault Consitant jumper. But when they got hot. Unstoppable. Both could blow by. Go to rim. Iverson to glass. Thimas with glide to finish.

@undergroundheatcypher1091 Жыл бұрын

Why doesn't this amazing performance has more comments than this Zeke was the man and the whole world should know!!

@btoball2 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing but pure heart 💯

@douglastaylor6171 Жыл бұрын

35 years removed from this game, I cannot see this man, at the pinnacle of his sport, knowing that upbringing, and not lose my shit that on the biggest night of his basketball career, a Championship is taken from him. Hobbling up and down the court, focused, determined. Jack McCloskey, in the myriad of retrospectives on this team, once said "the things he had inside him are not prevelant in this sport, or in any profession." I don't care if it's the will to go when they tell you to stop, I don't care if it's because you didn't have a car and you walked 30 miles every day, or that you had an abuser and you refuse to let them run your life, it is one of the truest blessings in this world to see a person with the heart and character to continue when the bridge is taken, the battle overwhelms you, and you still fight to the bitter end. You can cry in Sacramento about Game 6 in 2002. You can cry about how the Jaliblazers and Pacers got robbed by circumstances...that's the ordinary. The extraordinary is to feel that kind of failure and never waiver in resolve. You keep your post. You keep hope. You make them torture you until you are dead. You never break, or change, or yield. That's toughness.

@dennisking1445 Жыл бұрын

This is the best finals performance I have ever seen I was 14 watching this game with my father

@moedark4390 Ай бұрын

Was a 16 year old laker fan , and I remember being moved by his courage and play. So much heart

@Amick44 Жыл бұрын

Incredible performance. Great player fights thru injury. Keeps his team in a game in a championship series. Given the stage and stakes, doesn't get any better than this.

@davidrainey2344 Ай бұрын

This was a really great series ..all the hype for Jordan and Bird....the greatness of the Lakers and Pistons gets overlooked...Thomas played legendary

@javianjohnson8746 4 ай бұрын

HEART! KILLER TOUGHNESS!!

@cb31323 7 ай бұрын

Kids today don’t understand this was basically against the Showtime Lakers IN THEIR PRIME Why this performance doesn’t get talked about as much is beyond me

@nothingnothing7648 Жыл бұрын

Still one of the 15-25 greatest players this league has ever seen. STILL!

@Tddj11 2 жыл бұрын

Phantom foul on Laimbeer...we should have 3 in row...still pisses me off till this day.

@rafikz77 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not even a Pistons fan and I agree

@thomasbell5056 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@dennisking1445 Жыл бұрын

😂 Yes it was a BS call terrible

@LamarcusMassey-eo1lp 5 ай бұрын

I'm a bulls fan and they would have 3peated 1st they got screwed

@Terryhendog Ай бұрын

Thomas lighting up the best defender in basketball on one leg for 25 in a quarter

@legogeneralgrievous1173 7 ай бұрын

Isiah Thomas may have been the GOAT.

@MrSleepy613 7 ай бұрын

Huge Detroit Pistons fan, his game early in his career, is one of the greatest individual performances in NBA history, second only to Isaiah Thomas game 6 in 88, that was the greatest individual performances in SPORTS HISTORY

@bigdaddycraze 9 ай бұрын

Watched this live. Not a Pistons fan at all, but this was one of the impressive displays I've ever seen

@lamontwilliams4172 2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 legendary

@DreamWriterInk4u Жыл бұрын

This is when I fell in "love" for the first time!! I've been a #chitownBadBoyfansince88

@ltod2 3 ай бұрын

Dude went crazy that 3rd quarter as Lakers fan watch him destroy my team.We barely won game 103-102 in game 6 of 1988 NBA Finals.But we would repeat game 7 winning chip 108-105 because of great game by James Worthy he was incredible.Isiah earned my respect this game

@reallybigmike Жыл бұрын

Really puts into perspective how soft the players are today. Not trying to be a "old head" even though I am. But you don't see individual toughness from players like Isiah put on display here. Not talking bout era's or hard fouls. I'm talking about grit and wanting to win at all cost.

@MoveInSilence23 Жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@hlf_coder6272 Жыл бұрын

Back then winning was everything. Today we give participation trophies. It’s a manifestation of our culture’s devolution into weakness.

@johnwatson6181 Жыл бұрын

Nobody gives IT the respect he deserves and it is because of MJ's hate towards him. Also, MJ beat a hobbled Isiah Thomas in 1991. He missed a large number of games and had surgery on his wrist the summer 1990. He was nowhere near 100% that season.

@goatness2326 Жыл бұрын

MJ didn't like Zeek.... But He always admits that Zeek is no.2 point guard of all time. If you think about it, it's the media that did Zeek wrong. I always got love for Week, even tho I'm a Jordan fan .👌 The Bad Boys Should have 3 Peated, they should have won in 1988🤔

@johnwatson6181 Жыл бұрын

@@goatness2326 I know MJ gave him props for his talent. I'd say the media did the whole Pistons team wrong. IT has said MJ and Phil Jackson did have a press conference and call the Pistons bad for basketball and undeserving champions. This is true, it happened before game 4 ECF. Then he is supposed to congratulate them for winning? Most Jordan fans have ran with that and will not think outside Michael's statements, yours is a rare outside the box view. I respect Jordan's game, he is the GOAT, LeBron got nothing on him but in this case they both need to come together and say they were both wrong and let it go. I think even the 1988 Lakers know the Pistons should have won.

@envyops 9 ай бұрын

@@johnwatson6181 Man, MJ is the media!

@jeffrey3498 5 ай бұрын

What a player!

@lucasbullthebarrowicon330 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@Palayon 4 ай бұрын

Mom duke’s favorite player!!!

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

@Kareem ALI ok, so get this.. There was a show called " beyond the glory" and the Isiah Thomas episode has vanished off the face of the earth!! It was one of the best documentaries on zeek! Ever see it?

@123slasher.16 Жыл бұрын

Isiah's was the first episode of Beyond The Glory. I still have it taped on VHS.

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

@@123slasher.16 omg please load it on KZfaq!!! It's nowhere online

@123slasher.16 Жыл бұрын

@@goku20015 My son has it and is currently transferring it from VHS to disc. I gave him over 600 VHS tapes from the 1980s and 1990s to convert

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

@@123slasher.16 omg yes!! But I think that aired in 2001

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

@@123slasher.16 hope he loads it on KZfaq soon.. God it's been years since I watched that

@shawnbennett7294 Ай бұрын

Never seen Jordan do anything like that, that a real ball player mj..

@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj 29 күн бұрын

Jordan would've never even PLAYED with such an injury!! Let alone scored TWENTY-FIVE in a single quarter!!

@TeamStudNation1280 19 күн бұрын

Dude, he dropped 38 while having the Flu in the '97 NBA Finals

@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj 18 күн бұрын

@@TeamStudNation1280 A flu can be played-THROUGH,with resolve,but a fractured ankle is a whole different hindrance!! I myself BROKE my ankle stepping on a friends foot during a"pickup"basketball game,collapsed yo the asphalt,then went into SHOCK,yet reporyed to work at Detroits' J.L Hudsons' Building implosion project tbree days later,reporting to my workstation on the TWENTY-FOUTH floor of a building without any ELEVATORS!! I had no choice but to HIKE -up 24 floors of unclad, CONCRETE stairs on a freshly BROKEN ankle!! NO easy task,believe me!! Doing such with influenza would've been a CINCH-job!!